59. Eurythmy Performance

Until now, when we have attempted such dramatic representations, we have always presented that which simply depicts human life in the physical world in the same way as it is otherwise presented on stage. We depict the intrusion of the supersensible by using eurythmy, as you will see today. But we will also succeed in achieving something for the inner structure of the drama, for the plasticity and musicality of the dramatic action itself, as the eurythmic art develops. For we are still in the early stages of this eurythmic art. I ask you to bear this in mind today. We certainly do not imagine that we are already offering something complete; but those honored spectators who may have been here before and saw something months ago will notice how we have tried in recent months — namely, by forms over larger sentence structures over the construction of a poem, to include the inner form of poetry in the spatial form of movement - how we have in turn made progress in this eurythmic art as a result.